DanglinDon
@danglindon.bsky.social
He/him; younger twin. Former gifted child & ChicagoGay; current un[der]employed Midwestern embarrassment mit "un'aria di frociaggine." Occasionally ina-pro-pro--but mostly showing watches, pens, film cameras, & old records
Know what's tremendously disheartening? Taking all day to clear a driveway & 2 vehicles encased in snow, only to have more snow cover- (& now ice-)over all that (the white expanse in the driveway seen to the right in this video of more snow [illuminated by streetlight] was the hood of a blue truck)
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Know what's tremendously disheartening? Taking all day to clear a driveway & 2 vehicles encased in snow, only to have more snow cover- (& now ice-)over all that (the white expanse in the driveway seen to the right in this video of more snow [illuminated by streetlight] was the hood of a blue truck)
Well, I'm having fun outside to-day...(video this time includes alt-text in the audio)
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Well, I'm having fun outside to-day...(video this time includes alt-text in the audio)
Trying to fit the door back on--OHH, the frustration!! I swear I just heard a grunt like George C. Scott in "Man Getting Hit by Football:"
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Trying to fit the door back on--OHH, the frustration!! I swear I just heard a grunt like George C. Scott in "Man Getting Hit by Football:"
...this is just too entertaining. I had to sit down & take in the scene--while looking at my phone...ma'am, I've touched your shed door at least 19 times more than you in the past 5 months; maybe now you understand how annoying that might have been...
November 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
...this is just too entertaining. I had to sit down & take in the scene--while looking at my phone...ma'am, I've touched your shed door at least 19 times more than you in the past 5 months; maybe now you understand how annoying that might have been...
Oldest selfie on your phone (speaking of bowties):
December 2009 (back when I still had a flip-phone w/o camera, so it's taken on a 3MP digital camera that I had to then attach to a laptop to upload the photos by sending them as verizon sms attachments...also, more of my face than anyone's seen...)
December 2009 (back when I still had a flip-phone w/o camera, so it's taken on a 3MP digital camera that I had to then attach to a laptop to upload the photos by sending them as verizon sms attachments...also, more of my face than anyone's seen...)
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Oldest selfie on your phone (speaking of bowties):
December 2009 (back when I still had a flip-phone w/o camera, so it's taken on a 3MP digital camera that I had to then attach to a laptop to upload the photos by sending them as verizon sms attachments...also, more of my face than anyone's seen...)
December 2009 (back when I still had a flip-phone w/o camera, so it's taken on a 3MP digital camera that I had to then attach to a laptop to upload the photos by sending them as verizon sms attachments...also, more of my face than anyone's seen...)
I FOUND IT!! Saturday 10.Jul.2004 (it's tremendously hard for me to pick a favorite Mike Peters image, but this is in my top-five across all-time):
![From the editorial archives of grimmy.com, a @mikepeters.bsky.social creation shows a headline reading "ANOTHER CHENEY DIRTY WORD." Below, a glowering hunched-over-male-figure with just a fringe of hair about his temples glares at the viewer from behind severe glasses, his jowly chin resting on his jacket lapels and striped tie. A speech balloon shows the figure saying something with the center portion centered by a black box, reading "GO [then in a black box] TRIAL LAWYER [then below the black box] YOURSELF."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreidzcbkofjsbsyqvrb32h4qtjrkdi4abqfnymjruwxrb6urp2gwlse@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I FOUND IT!! Saturday 10.Jul.2004 (it's tremendously hard for me to pick a favorite Mike Peters image, but this is in my top-five across all-time):
Sk@t you from a different era
![[Not-so-]Bearded [not-so-]bloated guy sits in his backyard (2 weeks after he shaved off his beard for the last time, some 15 years ago) with a Columbia Viva~Tonal crank-phonograph playing behind him, under a 500-year-old-mulberry-tree.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreiaecs2zba7kmrvnaaypiefjbk5rch7x3oewfrhrgghqpzl6t6xuqu@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Sk@t you from a different era
Good night, all! Kahn & Jones again for the win in this 1924 tune:
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Good night, all! Kahn & Jones again for the win in this 1924 tune:
Can someone help me find a @mikepeters.bsky.social cartoon done right after the GOP started raggin' on John Edwards for being an attorney? It was something like? a headline stating "a new insult," or something to that effect--but went back to Cheney swearing at Pat Leahy on the Senate floor
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Can someone help me find a @mikepeters.bsky.social cartoon done right after the GOP started raggin' on John Edwards for being an attorney? It was something like? a headline stating "a new insult," or something to that effect--but went back to Cheney swearing at Pat Leahy on the Senate floor
Let me also show you how they're crafted to allow you to access what might be in your pockets underneath (while also giving 2 breast pockets, 2 back pockets, & 2 side pockets; it is thru the side pockets that I'm at to access my watch pocket underneath to glance the time)
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Let me also show you how they're crafted to allow you to access what might be in your pockets underneath (while also giving 2 breast pockets, 2 back pockets, & 2 side pockets; it is thru the side pockets that I'm at to access my watch pocket underneath to glance the time)
I get to wear this weirdly-tailored set of coveralls twice each year: in the spring (when I turn it on) & the fall (when i turn it off) accessing the 6-ft-below-street-level-water-valge for my parents' sprinkler system. #ThingThursday
November 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I get to wear this weirdly-tailored set of coveralls twice each year: in the spring (when I turn it on) & the fall (when i turn it off) accessing the 6-ft-below-street-level-water-valge for my parents' sprinkler system. #ThingThursday
Happy birthday to Broadway's original Annie, Andrea McArdle, born in Philadelphia on this date in 1963. Just a few yrs ago, I got to meet her backstage after a 4Girls4 revue in Naperville (for the record, I'm in this picture originally, too--but I used Paint to move me over in front of my Ex)
![Andrea McArdle--dressed in a white jacket & blouse over black slacks, her auburn hair braided-up & pinned back--appears to be leaning-in next to [not-so-]bearded[, not-so-]bloated guy wearing a green button-up-shirt & holding that night's playbill (along with his cap, folded) in his left hand. A yellow-fronted Playbill from Annie's original run at the Alvin Theatre pokes out from behind [not-so-]bearded[, not-so-]bloated guy's left shoulder (held originally by the person standing where [not-so-]bearded[, not-so-]bloated guy currently appears in this terrible paint-amendment).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreickjqf4jvlltqtytetfmwmdr37nwq2jmvpxqe367n7vco225cob4e@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Happy birthday to Broadway's original Annie, Andrea McArdle, born in Philadelphia on this date in 1963. Just a few yrs ago, I got to meet her backstage after a 4Girls4 revue in Naperville (for the record, I'm in this picture originally, too--but I used Paint to move me over in front of my Ex)
Sk@t the same actor as hero and villain (& he played demented far too infrequently; truly a shame, 'cause I think he did heavies better than his lighter work):
![Sheriff Andy Taylor [Andy Griffith, lower right of image] holds a nickel in his right hand--pointing with his left index finger at the coin while he describes it to Deputy Barney Fife [J. Don Knotts, upper left of image], indicating the buffalo"'s pointin' the wrong way." From the Andy Griffith Show, S.1ep.19, "Mayberry on Record" [dir. Gene Reynolds; aired Mo.13.II.1961].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreiamhzyqofrxsilbjxrckx46r22cjmzznw2bybnon7dtoahw2lx234@jpeg)
![Marcia Jeffries [Patricia Neal; seen here from behind & to the right, on the left-hand-third of the image] comes to visit Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes [Andy Griffith; right-hand-side] who's grinning menacingly as he animatedly talks to Marcia--while waiting for hundreds of partygoers to arrive--in a pivotal scene from A Face in the Crowd [1957, dir. Elia Kazan].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreiav6lxogqmn2ymjr5lih32wvlt7pav4msumvsxaxwgamwtx2agiz4@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Sk@t the same actor as hero and villain (& he played demented far too infrequently; truly a shame, 'cause I think he did heavies better than his lighter work):
If I ever make it up your way, Austin, I'm bringing you this find my parents had in the backseat of one of their vehicles (stuck between the seat cushions); not Alien-franchise-related, but encompassing your cinematic interests
![A blue plastic Zak! 25oz/739mL tumbler for the original release of Avatar [2009, dir. Jas. Cameron].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreia23g2o22khkpzza6if2ksbrc5v3zzd2gwxjfuik2dbft3jkkdrti@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
If I ever make it up your way, Austin, I'm bringing you this find my parents had in the backseat of one of their vehicles (stuck between the seat cushions); not Alien-franchise-related, but encompassing your cinematic interests
It was almost certainly released contemporaneously on 8-track at the time of its initial release...trust, I've been thru stax of releases (& re-releases) around that time...a handful of examples:
![Four separate 8-track tapes: 1) Here's Johnny! Magical Moments from the Tonight Show - Volume Two [1974, Casablanca Special Products]; 2) the Beatles' Second Album [undated, Capitol]; 3) Kenny Rogers & the First Edition Greatest Hits [undated, Warner Bros.]; 4) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle [1976, Fantasy].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreibjxxchrxbwkkntnpoqgyovvr4sdlfl2t5ca2ilrb6wd6xnqupkhy@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 5:05 AM
It was almost certainly released contemporaneously on 8-track at the time of its initial release...trust, I've been thru stax of releases (& re-releases) around that time...a handful of examples:
"I Saw Her Standing There" backed-with "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was also released in North America (on the swirling-yellow-&-orange-Capitol-label) on Boxing Day 1963
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 AM
"I Saw Her Standing There" backed-with "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was also released in North America (on the swirling-yellow-&-orange-Capitol-label) on Boxing Day 1963
Why not the Surfaris' "Wipe Out"--first released in '63, but picked up on Dot Records in '64--it would've been everywhere [photo from my Dad's collection, on the original label, also signed by the band's original manager, Dale Smallin, who gives the opening laugh]
November 3, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Why not the Surfaris' "Wipe Out"--first released in '63, but picked up on Dot Records in '64--it would've been everywhere [photo from my Dad's collection, on the original label, also signed by the band's original manager, Dale Smallin, who gives the opening laugh]
Inappropriate accomplishment for the weekend: I managed to work-in a Rob-Schneider-reference into talking about one of Rodgers & Hammerstein's most inappropriate musical-treatments (and no, Lutellan, it sadly wasn't South Pacific)
November 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Inappropriate accomplishment for the weekend: I managed to work-in a Rob-Schneider-reference into talking about one of Rodgers & Hammerstein's most inappropriate musical-treatments (and no, Lutellan, it sadly wasn't South Pacific)
Sometimes it's pretty here (as long as you don't stop to consider how long it'll take for the rest of the leaves to fall, & how many follow-up-times you'll be raking them up to keep your parents from having to do so...)
November 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Sometimes it's pretty here (as long as you don't stop to consider how long it'll take for the rest of the leaves to fall, & how many follow-up-times you'll be raking them up to keep your parents from having to do so...)
The artwork of @nikkidawes.bsky.social presenting a reminder for what many of us need to do to-night
#TurnBackTime
#tiiiiooommmmee
#TurnBackTime
#tiiiiooommmmee
![Nikki Dawes--for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette--has crafted a delightful portrait of late-'80s-Cher wearing a midnight-blue-to-black-ensemble (reminiscent of the now-classic Bob Mackie designs worn in a specific video), holding the face of a clock [showing 2:00] in her right hand, while pointing at the hour-hand on 2:00 with her left. A superscript-headline (with sub-heading) declares "TURN BACK TIME // Daylight Saving Time will end at 2 a.m. Sunday. Clocks should be set back one hour."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreidzzfqfunagz6cv2v7gkhebs56bqhxo4jjyuagm7lt3woxjac3gkq@jpeg)
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The artwork of @nikkidawes.bsky.social presenting a reminder for what many of us need to do to-night
#TurnBackTime
#tiiiiooommmmee
#TurnBackTime
#tiiiiooommmmee
Costume alternate (as I also took the time to steam & brush my collapsible silk top hat, in case I wanted to do a beefier rendition of geriatric Verdi--for which I would've further whitened my hair & added a knotted muffler about my neck)
November 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Costume alternate (as I also took the time to steam & brush my collapsible silk top hat, in case I wanted to do a beefier rendition of geriatric Verdi--for which I would've further whitened my hair & added a knotted muffler about my neck)
Aaaaahhhh, the Lunar Folk! There's a California Moon-Wine by Paul Masson that holds to that great standard. Like every great moon-wine, it's vintage-dated in the bottle...
#DoesHeDoAnything
#DoesHeDoAnything
October 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Aaaaahhhh, the Lunar Folk! There's a California Moon-Wine by Paul Masson that holds to that great standard. Like every great moon-wine, it's vintage-dated in the bottle...
#DoesHeDoAnything
#DoesHeDoAnything
Went to a Halloween party last-minute on Saturday & family friend gave me his Dad's Pentax ME, 2 extra lenses, some of those fun '70s filters, AND two unexposed rolls of expired Superia400Xtra
![1970s single-lens-reflex-35mm-film-camera sits atop its large light brown padded leather camera case, beside lens covers, & 2 additional lenses next to it. The macro is a 55mm Albinar ADG macro zoom [80-200mm, 1:3,9]; beside that, the camera's original 50mm SMC Pentax-M [1:1,7], behind which 2 rolls of 35mm film rest. The camera is currently wearing a 49mm Albinar ADG auto zoom macro [35-70mm, 1:3,5~4,8], along with a black "GENIUNE TOP GRAIN COWHIDE--MADE IN U.S.A." neck strap.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreicw57qhlt3dzhb7xn7jqzy6h75q5f4krcbx367znskfrakhp33vda@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Went to a Halloween party last-minute on Saturday & family friend gave me his Dad's Pentax ME, 2 extra lenses, some of those fun '70s filters, AND two unexposed rolls of expired Superia400Xtra
Celestial Cucumber, Nr. 3 [in which God shows He's a trans-ally]
![Sunset of blue & a very pale orange lights the altocirrus-clouds shades from a deep [almost-brick-]red to the palest pinks; when viewed behind the houses & school buildings of the neighborhood (as-seen thru these aged dirty garage windows; someone remind me to find the squeegee the next time I'm looking into there) in-person the stripes greatly resembled the Trans-Pride-Flag.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreig2w5w65yjjcspzhzybktw4zcq5ruq22kk7shepuwcdx3ws746fcm@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Celestial Cucumber, Nr. 3 [in which God shows He's a trans-ally]
A photo you'd use as an album-cover (one I need to re-visit & shoot with the overhead lights in-mind bzw. the double-exposure, but I'm terribly pleased with how the 1st attempt turned out)
![[double-exposure on CineStill400D color film]: Bearded bloated guy (dressed in green 1970s cardigan) attempts to hold-still a 1934 Rolleiflex "Old Standard" twin-lens-reflex-120-film-camera, as he looks upward into black. Emerging from the blackness above his head, a bluish-cast-table--holding a pearl-handled-straight-razor [difficult to see, except for the central-axis of the pivot-point], a short stout glass bottle marked "POISON," & a piece of paper onto which has been written "Never let them know" ["Never" being double-underlined] in cursive with a broad-nibbed fountain pen--occupies the top-third of the photo. Developing & scanning by Yours Truly](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreie7su5ynnfokoodr35nk6byivmvma7j22hno44nme4rq6wp2mpabq@jpeg)
October 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A photo you'd use as an album-cover (one I need to re-visit & shoot with the overhead lights in-mind bzw. the double-exposure, but I'm terribly pleased with how the 1st attempt turned out)